The Natural History And Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton
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Soc. " 1874. EJD. OF SELBORNE. 245 Some time since its discovery, this echo is become totally silent, though the object or hop-kiln remains: nor is there any mystery in this defect ; for the field between is planted as a hop-garden, and the voice of the speaker is totally ab- sorbed and lost among the poles and entangled foliage of the hops. And when the poles are removed in autumn, the disappointment is the same, because a tall quickset hedge, nurtured up for the purpose of shelter to the hop-... ground, entirely interrupts the impulse and repercussion of the voice : so that, till those obstructions are removed, no more of its garrulity can be expected. Should any gentleman of fortune think an echo in his park, or outlet, a pleasing incident, he might build one at little or no expense. For whenever he had occasion for a new barn, stable, dog-kennel, or the like structure, it would be only needful to erect this building on the gentle declivity of a hill, with a like rising opposite to it, at a few hundred yards' distance; and perhaps success might be the easier ensured, could some canal, lake, or stream intervene.
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